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You Really Got Me (The Kinks) - ROGGS Studio Live Session

I’m A Believer – The Monkees

'Bohemian Rhapsody' Was Freddie's confessional. It was about how different his life could have been, and how much happier he might have been, had he just been able to be himself, the whole of his life. The world heard this song as a masterpiece of imagination, a great command of musical styles.

Bohemean Rhapsody

[Verse 1]
Build a wall ten miles high
To keep your nightmares out
Barbed wire around your mind
Is what it’s all about
Every shadow makes you jump
Every difference makes you shake
The enemy you’re running from
Is the one you help create

[Chorus]
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
REFLECTING WHAT YOU FEAR! (FEAR!)
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
YOUR DARKNESS GROWING NEAR!

[Verse 2]
Terror at the borderline
Panic in the streets
Monsters in your headlines
With faces just like me
What you hate in distant lands
Lives inside your head
The threats you think you understand
Are the thoughts you never shed

[Chorus]
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
REFLECTING WHAT YOU FEAR! (FEAR!)
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
YOUR DARKNESS GROWING NEAR!

[Bridge]
FACE IT! FACE IT!
The enemy is you!
TRACE IT! TRACE IT!
Back to what is true!
That stranger in the night
That difference you despise
Is just your shadow cast
Against the distant skies!

[Verse 3]
Rip the blindfold from your eyes
Smash that mirror clean
The monsters that you demonize
Are projections of your dreams
When you stop fearing yourself
When you face what dwells inside
The borders start dissolving
And there’s nowhere left to hide

[Final Chorus]
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
CONFRONTING WHAT YOU FEAR! (FEAR!)
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
NOW FINALLY SEEING CLEAR!
THE WORLD’S A MIRROR! (MIRROR!)
BREAK! THE! GLASS!


Reflection

Rivers

In April 2015, a gentleman from Canada called Richard Baxter contacted me through my music page on Facebook. Here's the link to it, by the way:
www.facebook.com/tristansmusic

Richard's friend Ron Kausner discovered me through my SoundCloud. Both of them were friends with my hero Ronnie James Dio! Anyway, Richard is in a Ronnie James Dio tribute band called Magika. He asked me if I'd be interested in recording the vocals to three songs that they recorded! I was pretty excited, and jumped at the chance.

So Richard sent through the three mp3 files of their tracks that just needed the vocals to be added. I got to work as soon as I could, and completed the first song "Time Machine" the following month. The very next day, I completed "Dream Evil". About a week and a half later, I got to this song: "Neon Knights".

Here's the link to Magika's Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/pages/Magika-Ron…49922017?fref=ts

It was quite an honour to collaborate with some guys from the other side of the world with just as much passion for Dio as me! This is the opening song from the legendary 1980 Sabbath album "Heaven and Hell" (the first of the Sabbath albums to feature RJD on vocals).

Richard is keen to record the music to some more Magika tracks one day so I can sing my arse off again... but at this moment in time, we just have the three songs. I hope you enjoy them! Long live Dio! \m/

Neon Knights (Black Sabbath Cover)

George Harrison - Cloud Nine  issued by Dark Horse Records ‎– Catalog # 9 25643-1. released in 1987

11 - Got My Mind Set on You

The Raspberries- Go All The Way

New school gone old school
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/silentgiantsmusic/

I Get Around (Beach Boys Cover)

99 Red Ballons

You Really Got Me (The Kinks)

I'll try and keep this short...

I was born in Loxton on February 4th, 1981 into a pretty musical family. My grandpa was a singer, my dad is a singer/guitarist and my older brother is also a singer/guitarist. It was only fitting (and hardly surprising) that I followed in their footsteps.

I've been playing the guitar for pretty much as long as I can remember, and I really should be a lot better at it by now, but I just don't practice! Naughty me! I also started singing when I was about 18 or so (when I finally got the courage to do it). As well as guitar, I'm also pretty handy on bass, drums and keyboard. I also shake a pretty mean tambourine!

Over the years I've been in a few bands, starting with the infamous "Fat Ankles" in year 8 at Loxton High with my mates Juice, Romers and Goodo. After High School came "Dead Panda Sandals" (later re-named to "The Loose Cannons") and then a couple of years later I joined "Sector 7G", which became a big passion of mine. We did pretty well for four local boys... we released two CDs, had airtime on Adelaide radio, made a few DVDs, played plenty of Adelaide gigs, did some festivals with big-name bands, got write-ups in magazines, etc. The G lasted 5 years, but unfortunately, all good things come to an end.

For over seven years now I've been in my current band "The Door Snakes" with my mates Gogs & Diamond Dave. We enjoy immense popularity locally, and our public Loxton shows are always chockas! We're a cover band, and I like to think we play a pretty vast range of songs, that pretty much everyone can enjoy. If you haven't experienced the craziness of a Loxton Door Snakes show, then I thoroughly recommend it!

In the last few years I have bought some really cool recording gear, and made myself a nice little studio in my house. Using results from a brief online poll among my friends, I named it "Suck My Studio"... classy, eh! Thanks to a lot of help from Wattsy (my studio guru), I'm now reasonably handy with Pro Tools, and have recorded quite a few songs.

I'm a very busy chap, and unfortunately I hardly find the time to get into my studio. Hopefully I can slink in there a lot more this year somehow! The tunes I've recorded so far have mainly been silly songs, cover tracks, or tunes written specially for mates. These songs have been really good opportunities to gain experience with the software, hardware, microphones, recording processes, etc. But I guess you could say I'm still yet to "get serious" and record some original Tristan Kemp masterpieces. I now feel I have enough experience in the studio to start doing this!

I enjoy having mates around to record stuff in my studio. Some mates have "guest starred" on songs with me, and other mates have used the studio to record their own stuff. The single aim of having the studio there is to have fun. It's a cool hobby! And I don't plan to profit from any of the music I make... in fact, I plan to upload all my songs so that people can listen to them for free. If you like any of my stuff, feel free to drop me a line and I can Email you an mp3... or of course, you can download them straight from SoundCloud. Careful though... some of the songs contain some naughty language!

I don't have any limits when it comes to songs I record... nor do I take myself too seriously. I'm a metalhead at heart, but I also have a good sense of humour... so expect everything from epic metal masterpieces, to silly jingles, to comedy tunes, to cover songs, to ballads, to dance tracks!!! Yes... I have many plans! Tee hee hee!

I'm currently doing an ongoing awesome project with Juice (my old school buddy and former Fat Ankles bandmate) called "STUTAP". It stands for "Slave To Uncle Tom's Appetite for Poundcake". Great name, eh! If you're a fan of 80's metal, you should be able to pick out the four song/album names we pinched to come up with our name. "The Tap" (as we like to call it) is all about fun and filth! Juice and I co-write the songs, and record them together. We've done a few songs so far, and they're on here... so check them out! Our main influence for The Tap is Steel Panther... so be prepared for some dirty, hard rocking hilarity!

Cheers for looking at my page. Dang... it seems I didn't try hard enough to keep this short! If you wanna drop me an Email, my address is terrytodger@hotmail.com

And don't forget to "like" my Facebook page: "Tristan Kemp's music" (the link straight to the page is on here).

Gooooood tiiiaaams!!!

Tris.

Neon Knights (Black Sabbath Cover)

Tristan Kemp

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